One free hour in your business. This is what you keep.
I walk your floor and trace how the business actually runs: the website, the tools, the invoicing, the double entry. I fill in this checklist by hand and leave it with you. No invoice, no obligation.
The senior technology and growth partner, without the full-time hire.
Headway · Business systems checkOne hour · on site
Free hour assessment
Filled in by hand during the visit. The page stays with you. Red notes below are examples.
BusinessDate
1 · Website and lead capture
Where a new enquiry lands, and who sees it firstscattered across inboxes
Follow-up on quotes and missed callsquote follow-up is manual
What happens to enquiries after hours
2 · Systems that don't talk
Anything typed into more than one systemtwo tools, same data
Handoffs between booking, the job, and the office
3 · Invoicing and money flow
Quote to invoice to payment to QuickBooks, every hopretyped at each step
How long money takes to arrive, and who chases it
4 · Subscriptions and tools
Every app on the card statement, what each is formost owners undercount
Overlap, unused seats, forgotten renewals
5 · Repetitive work
What lives in spreadsheets, paper, or someone's head
Hours each week a machine could do insteadask about month end
Assessment notes
ranked by what it costs you, told to you at minute 50
hello@headwaydigital.ca(705) 999-6126
What the hour is
An hour on your floor, not a sales call.
Most owners have never watched someone trace a lead, a job, and an invoice through their business end to end. That is the whole hour. It is the same assessment I would run as a CIO, sized for a main street business.
Plain tools, named plainly: website · QuickBooks · HubSpot · Google Workspace · Stripe · Shopify
I graded thousands of this region's business websites.
Every thumbnail behind this card is a real local business website captured by ShoreGrade, the public report card I built for Simcoe and Grey County. That is how I know what main street is up against, site by site.
The questions on the clipboard are the same ones. Only the size of the business changes.
Who shows up
The person who fills in the clipboard.
I'm Chris Patten. I live in Simcoe County, and I have spent my career being the person a business hands the messy part to. Ex-CIO. Accounting and finance trained. Career project manager.
I have run this assessment at every scale: inside a company that grew from $1M to $69M while I was there, on a platform I built that processed more than $110M, and in my own company, which I built and sold in 2023.
Headway is a one-person technology and growth consultancy in Simcoe County, Ontario. I build websites that bring in work, connect systems like QuickBooks and CRMs, set up AI reception for missed calls, and act as a fractional CTO for small businesses across Simcoe and Grey County.
$1M → $69Mrevenue growth at a company I helped run
$110M+processed through a platform I built
2023built and sold my own company
1 hourfree assessment, in your business
My commitment
What I promise about the hour.
I'll come to your business and spend the hour on your floor, not on a video call. I'll fill in the checklist by hand, in front of you, and leave the page on your counter when I go.
You keep everything I find. If the honest answer is that nothing is worth fixing yet, that is exactly what you will hear. No invoice, no obligation, and nothing to cancel.
